In the latest book on Donald Trump, more zesty details from his time as US President are revealed. On a trip to Europe, he is said to have spoken benevolently about Hitler to his then Chief of Staff.
Probably no other US president in recent history has caused as much attention with his statements as Donald Trump. In the latest book about his years in the White House, “” reporter Michael Bender reports on a moment that Trump’s former chief of staff John Kelly is said to have left behind in a stunned state. On a trip to Europe in 2018, the US President is said to have said to him: “Well, Hitler did a lot of good.” The occasion of the visit was the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War.
The British “” reported about Trump’s statements, among others, who received a copy of Bender’s book entitled “Frankly, We Did Win This Election”. The book had received a lot of attention even before it was released next week.
“You must never say anything that supports Hitler”
In his book, White House reporter Bender writes that Trump made the remark during an impromptu history lesson in which Kelly “reminded the president of which countries were on which side during the conflict” and “included the points from World War One linked to World War II and all of Hitler’s atrocities “.
Trump denied to Bender that he made the benevolent remark about Hitler. However, the author cites several anonymous sources who report that the chief of staff “warned the president that he was wrong, but Trump did not let himself be swayed”, particularly highlighting Germany’s economic recovery under Hitler in the 1930s. “Kelly shot back again,” writes Bender, “and argued that the German people would have been better poor than having been exposed to the Nazi genocide.” According to Bender, Trump was warned by Kelly that even if his claim about the German economy were true, “You must never say anything that Adolf Hitler supports. You just can’t.”
On the European trip in question, the then US President also made other misgivings. The cancellation of the visit to an American cemetery was already highly controversial in the USA. A short time later, Trump topped it all off by calling US soldiers who had fallen in the war “losers” and “victims” (“suckers”).
John Kelly, whose son was killed in Afghanistan in 2010, left the White House in early 2019. Since then, he has been critical of Trump in public on several occasions. According to reports from close confidants, Kelly said the ex-president was “the wrongest person” he has ever met in his life.
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